Super Boks land World Cup boost

By BRENDAN GALLAGHER

Doubling up: Aphid Dyantyi scores his second try for the Boks
PICTURE: Getty Images

SOUTH AFRICA produced their best performance since their stellar year of 2009 to claim a glorious and thoroughly deserved win over the All Blacks at Wellington.
It might have finished up as a backs-to-the-wall defensive effort in the final quarter but for much of the game they took the play to New Zealand in a way we have rarely seen in recent seasons. And the Kiwis suddenly looked vulnerable.
And, not for the first time, New Zealand showed a perverse reluctance t...

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